word of the day: estival

The word of the day is estival:

pertaining or appropriate to summer.

< Late Latin aestīvālis, equivalent to Latin aestīv (us) of or relating to summer + -ālis -al¹ (dictionary.com) 

"His allusion to The Sedentary Tzatzkeleh was embedded in a tirade against hyperactive women in literature and praise of their more placid sisters lazing on estival riverbanks and Levantine divans."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Torn Wings and Faux Pas